EXCLUSIVE: We also hear today that Hugh Grant is in talks to join Guy Ritche’s latest action thriller formerly known as Five Eyes at Miramax and STX.
The deal is not done yet.Grant would join Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett and Cary Elwes. Grant recently worked with Ritchie on Miramax/STX’s The Gentleman which made over $115M.
Grant is coming off raves for his performance opposite Nicole Kidman in HBO’s The Undoing, for which he just received a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Actor in a Limited Series of Movie Made For Television.Ritchie directs and is producing the film from a screenplay written by Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies (The Gentlemen, Wrath of Man), with revisions by Ritchie.
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